Nine in 10 health workers say low morale harming staff retention

Low morale and poor pay are key reasons why the NHS struggles to retain staff, according to a new survey.

A poll of 2,000 NHS workers found that structural reorganisations of the NHS, such as those pushed through by the former Health Secretary Andrew Lansley in 2012, have also affected how staff feel about their work.

The King's Fund think tank has heavily criticised those reforms, saying they were "damaging and distracting". It also sees the creation of new sustainability and transformation plans (STPs) as a "workaround" of Mr Lansley's reforms.